alt Hacker NewsClaude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026
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At this point you can stop worrying about downtime-free deployments so the devops becomes easier
We had a ton of traffic coming in to check them: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/anthropic
Not one of the usual ones that has service problems :)
Remember when putting your entire life & business into the cloud was good because they were all offering 5 9s of uptime?
Very few cases these days.. feels like we are lucky to get 2 9s anymore.
I wonder how much is due to supply constraints, how much is standard growing pains, and if over-reliance on AI was the cause for any outages.
I honestly feel like it's more honest status measure than many status pages I know.
Maybe they are gunning for 5 nines (9.9999%)
I wouldn't be too harsh, scaling x10 YoY is a bit hard on the infra!
You can access Claude models with Google Cloud reliability via VertexAI. The caveat is that you cannot use your subscription, per-token pricing only.
I personally prefer per-token, it makes you more thoughtful about your setup and usage, instead of spray and pray.
You can also access the notable open weight models with VertexAI, only need to change the model id string.
Probably vide-coded their infrastructure
If you don't pay attention 99% may sound high but it means up to 20 hours of downtime in over the quarter.
Anthropic has had more than that.
Yikes.
They seem to be a victim of their own success. Their response times are quite bad, and it's widely believed they are doing something to degrade service quality (quantizing?) in order to stretch resources. They just announced that they're cutting their usage limits down during peak hours as well.
They're in serious risk of losing their lead with this sort of performance.
Victim of success.
They are the best.
ChatGPT is walmart.
Gemini is kroger.
Claude is... idk your local grocer that is always amazing and costs more?
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This is not an outage, Claude just gets lazier on Fridays.
Sometimes Claude wants more lunch breaks, takes a half day and leaves the desk early just like any human would. (since AI boosters like comparing LLMs to humans all the time) /s
Hey folks, I'm Alex from the reliability engineering team at Anthropic. We've just posted the retrospective for this incident:
> On March 26–27, 2026, customers experienced elevated error rates when using Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6. The issue was caused by a networking performance degradation within our cloud infrastructure that disrupted communication between components of our serving stack. We resolved the incident by migrating the affected workloads to healthy infrastructure, restoring normal service by 9:30 AM PT on March 27.
https://status.claude.com/incidents/b9802k1zb5l2